Watch List notes:

ISLAMIC, Persia (Pre-Seljuq). Samanids of Akhsikath. Malik ibn Shakartegin, circa AH 312-344 / AD 924-955. Fals (Bronze, 28 mm, 2.94 g), struck for Bakr ibn Malik (AH 335-341 / AD 946-952). Citing his father, Malik ibn Shakartegin, the Samanid ruler Nuh II and the moneyer al-Husayn ibn al-Mu'ayyid, Nasrabad, AH 340 = AD 952/3. Album F1477. Very rare. Holed and with minor deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of Dr. D. Löer, ex Heritage Europe 62, 13 May 2019, 6909.